[2024] A Beautiful Specimen: A Short Story (An Ominous Hour)
On one of the upper floors of an apartment complex downtown, Alice keeps a secret. It isn’t hidden in a closet or in a dresser drawer, but in a spacious bathtub. As she comes home from a long day of work and hangs up her keys, she hears it thumping against the porcelain in anticipation of her return.
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Alice isn’t at all what she seems. Worse yet, she’s ready to move to the next stage.
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